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Heinrich Pette
German neuropathologist, 1887-1964.
Associated eponyms:
Pette-Döring disease
Subacute nodular panencephalitis.
Van Bogaert's encephalitis
A rare, chronic and progressive encephalitis in children and adolescents, involving the white matter of the cerebrum, brain stem, cerebral cortex, thalamus, and spinal cord.
Biography:
Heinrich Pette in 1955 was the president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin. At the University of Hamburg the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology is named in his honour.
Bibliography:
- Die akut entzündlichen Erkrankungen des Nervensystems (Viruskrankheiten, Entmarkungsenzephalomyelitiden, Neuritiden). Leipzig, 1942. 643 pages.
- Rudolf Janzen:
Heinrich Pette zum siebzigsten Geburtstag.
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, 1957, 82 2009.
- Rudolf Janzen:
Heinrich Pette.
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, 1964, 89: 2480-2482.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.
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